Photography award

A TALYBONT photographer has won an international award for a series of photographs of Borth.

Mira Andres, 28, has been awarded the ESPY Photography Award at the opening of the exhibition of shortlisted work at Swansea’s elysiumgallery last Friday.

Her prize is £1,000 and a solo show at elysiumgallery next year.

Mira says that her photographic composition, The Black Crows of Borth, is inspired by the history of the women of Borth who used to walk the cliff path to Rhiw Fawr through Clarach and over the hill to Aberystwyth to sell their catch of herring and cockles. Their close grouping, feisty characters and fluttering black garments earned them the name, ’black crows’.These women used to stand on the ‘Cliff of Vigil’ – the highest point in Borth – to look out for the return of their men’s boats.Mira’s photographs mix images of the shoreline with strong images of black-clad women looking out to sea.She was selected as the winner by judges Helen Sear and Peter Finnemore, two leading Welsh artists who have represented Wales at the Venice Biennale.